Installed OpenLink .052, Can no longer access file shares

First I would like to say thanks to all who post on the site, the information has been invaluable. I am new to Linux and the LinkStation(PPC). I installed

Message 1 of 6
, Aug 21 8:48 AM

First I would like to say thanks to all who post on the site, the
information has been invaluable.

I am new to Linux and the LinkStation(PPC). I installed
OpenLink .053 and SlimServer. Telnet via SSH, LinkStation Web page,
and Slimserver Web Page all work great. however I can no longer
access shares on the LinkStation from my PC (running XP). The
LinkStation device shows up, but appears to require a password, but I
can not get any combination of domain/username/password to work. I
have tried configuring the share with and without Access restrictions.

Can someone please point me in the right direction?

ddyeakley

... page, ... I used smbpasswd to clear the root samba password. I can now browse shares where account restrictions are not enforced. I still can not

> First I would like to say thanks to all who post on the site, the
> information has been invaluable.
>
> I am new to Linux and the LinkStation(PPC). I installed
> OpenLink .053 and SlimServer. Telnet via SSH, LinkStation Web

page,

> and Slimserver Web Page all work great. however I can no longer
> access shares on the LinkStation from my PC (running XP). The
> LinkStation device shows up, but appears to require a password, but I
> can not get any combination of domain/username/password to work. I
> have tried configuring the share with and without Access restrictions.
>
> Can someone please point me in the right direction?

I used smbpasswd to clear the root samba password. I can now browse
shares where account restrictions are not enforced. I still can not
use the WEB interface to create manages shares. I have read about
restrictions on user names (no spaces), and have simple usernames.
Maybe I do not understand how to enter user names and passwords, I have
tried every combination of domain, username and password I could think
of...

Seems like Users/Groups and Shares might be broken when using the
LinkStation web interface. Guess I need to read up on Samba so I can
manage them from telnet.... Could someone tell me if this is expected
behavior or why the LinkSataion web inteface might not be working?

Stephen Jungels

Could you post the exact error message you get when windows fails to connect to the share? There is a known windows bug which bit me when I first set up

Message 3 of 6
, Aug 22 8:59 AM

Could
you post the exact error message you get when windows fails to connect to the
share? There is a known windows bug which bit me when I first set up
protected shares and you may be seeing the same thing. If this is the
problem, the workaround is to reboot windows or connect to the share under a
different name. For example, if you have been connecting to \\linkstation\share, try connecting to \\192.168.1.102\share (substituting the
correct ip of your linkstation, of course).

--- In LinkStation_General@yahoogroups.com,
"ddyeakley" <ddyeakley@y...> wrote:> First I would like to
say thanks to all who post on the site, the > information has been
invaluable.> > I am new to Linux and the
LinkStation(PPC). I installed > OpenLink .053 and
SlimServer. Telnet via SSH, LinkStation Web page,
> and Slimserver Web Page all work great. however I can no
longer > access shares on the LinkStation from my PC (running
XP). The > LinkStation device shows up, but appears to
require a password, but I > can not get any combination of
domain/username/password to work. I > have tried
configuring the share with and without Access restrictions.> >
Can someone please point me in the right direction?

I used smbpasswd to
clear the root samba password. I can now browse shares
where account restrictions are not enforced. I still
can not use the WEB interface to create manages shares.
I have read about restrictions on user names (no spaces), and have simple
usernames. Maybe I do not understand how to enter user names
and passwords, I have tried every combination of domain, username and
password I could think of...

Seems like Users/Groups and
Shares might be broken when using the LinkStation web
interface. Guess I need to read up on Samba so I can
manage them from telnet.... Could someone tell me if this is
expected behavior or why the LinkSataion web inteface might not be
working?

David Hahn

I have the same problem with ddyeakley and what stephen suggested didn t work on my machine. The only thing I have different with ddyeakly is that I have

Message 4 of 6
, Aug 29 5:37 PM

I have the same problem with ddyeakley and what stephen suggested
didn't work on my machine. The only thing I have different with
ddyeakly is that I have freelink and debian installed. :(

> > information has been invaluable.
> >
> > I am new to Linux and the LinkStation(PPC). I installed
> > OpenLink .053 and SlimServer. Telnet via SSH, LinkStation Web
> page,
> > and Slimserver Web Page all work great. however I can no

I have LS1 with the latest Freelink installed (debian+samba+apache). A friend of mine suggested installing mod_dav(webdav) on apache. I haven t throughly done

Message 5 of 6
, Aug 30 1:15 AM

I have LS1 with the latest Freelink installed (debian+samba+apache).
A friend of mine suggested installing mod_dav(webdav) on apache.
I haven't throughly done my research yet, but it seems to be a
rather nice solution for those who want to use LS behind firewall
as the protocol goes through http.

Has anyone tried doing this on LS1?

Hans-Göran Puke

Yes, I have tried it and it worked. However, it requires some thinking concerning security and also it is not so easy to use as you may first think. Generally

Message 6 of 6
, Sep 25, 2005

Yes, I have tried it and it worked. However, it requires some thinking
concerning security and also it is not so easy to use as you may first
think. Generally speaking, I think ftp or sftp is as good a solution.

> I have LS1 with the latest Freelink installed (debian+samba+apache).
> A friend of mine suggested installing mod_dav(webdav) on apache.
> I haven't throughly done my research yet, but it seems to be a
> rather nice solution for those who want to use LS behind firewall
> as the protocol goes through http.
>
> Has anyone tried doing this on LS1?

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